6 September 2015

We give the assurance of our thoughts and prayers to all who are unwell, awaiting or undergoing treatment, anxious, or grieving for the loss of loved ones.

Welcome Service thanks

Sue Marshall-Jennings for the Circuit and Jenny Easson for the host congregation offer warmest thanks to those who in any way helped before, during and after Wednesday's Welcome Service. Many expressions of gratitude and appreciation have come from Methodists and ecumenical guests for the Service itself, the welcome (as encouraged in the Chair of the Synod's address!) and general hospitality. Sue and Jenny are aware of much thought and hard work which were offered and given, so they wish all concerned to know that this is much appreciated by them and others.

Dundee Open Doors Weekend

We now need to make arrangements for our participation during the weekend of September 19th and 20th - see our listing in the official brochure (copies on the vestibule table - take and distribute!!).

• The premises are to be open to the public between 10am & 2pm on the Saturday and between 12 noon (ie after worship) & 2pm on the Sunday, with displays and serving of light refreshments.
• Jenny & David Easson have been invited to prepare a display of the history of Methodists in Dundee - if you can assist with material, please contact them as soon as possible.
• If you can be available to welcome and serve refreshments to visitors, at any time during the opening hours, please let Sue or a Church Steward know. Please also pass on suggestions about ways of presenting ourselves, our faith, our work, our premises.

Blairgowrie Congregation

From today, Riverside Methodist Church will worship at 11am in “SCYD”, Wellmeadow House, Gas Brae, Blairgowrie PH10 6AY (SCYD is the Strathmore Centre for Youth Development, a refurbished central building, much used already but not on Sundays until today!).

Sponsored Cycle Ride

John Howson, a member of Holmes Chapel Methodist Church, is undertaking a sponsored bike ride up the east coast of Scotland, starting last Thursday in Berwick-on-Tweed (south of the Border!) and ending in John O'Groats a week tomorrow. He is “riding solo with no back up support”; some hospitality is being provided by Methodists en route, following his approach through local Ministers. He hopes this ride will be a 'prequel' to a longer journey next year (Land's End to J'o'G) using his bus pass through England. Donations are invited to SIFT, a Christian charity, working with poor people in Nicaragua, and to Open Doors, which works for persecuted Christians worldwide. See the JustGiving website, under his name, or individual charities' websites for more information.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support via the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in September for work in Iraq. Our prayerful attention this week is drawn to

• translators in Papua New Guinea where there are over 840 indigenous languages;
• literacy classes in Pakistan, also the safety of the Bible Society and its staff;
• support for work with young people and their leaders in Paraguay.

Dewhurst Cotton Reels wanted!!

Beryl Cowling is making a request on behalf of Barbara Glasson to Methodist Women in Britain (MwiB) and all of us.
Barbara Glasson is a Methodist minister, now in Bradford, a city with a mix of ethnicities and religions where the interfaith Touchstone Project is expanding into premises once occupied by the Dewhurst family, famous for making thread and cotton reels.
As part of the fund-raising, Barbara and colleagues wish to amass as many old Dewhurst reels as they can (with thread or not) for (aiming for a whole set of D numbers if possible!). Please rummage through sewing baskets and other (un)likely places to see if you have any Dewhurst reels to donate. Please put them in the box on the vestibule table. Beryl will ensure they reach the project. Fuller details on leaflets on vestibule table or contact Beryl.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the President and Vice-President of Conference in the Lancashire District next weekend;
• Connexional Faith and Order Committee, Thursday;
• residents, staff and projects in the Southampton District (Methodist Homes);
• micro-enterprises in Egypt (Embrace);
• Bible Society work in Iraq;
• provision of sanctuary in Gaza (Christian Aid);
• work in Papua New Guinea (MAF);
• work in south east India (The Leprosy Mission);
• we pray with and for the peoples of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia, and Yugoslavia (WCC);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Witney and Faringdon (Northampton District) and in Girvan (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire Circuit).

• 30 August 2015
• 13 September 2015

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